Publisher Rio de Janeiro : Na Impressão Regia

Collection jcbportugalbrazil; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor John Carter Brown Library

Contributor John Carter Brown Library

2 v. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Letter by Pero Vaz de Caminha written in Porto Seguro (Bahia, Brazil) dated May 1, 1500 about the discovery of Brazil here published for the first time on p. 12-34, v. 1

Includes alvará allowing the author the exclusive right to print and trade the Corografia for 14 years

Portuguese coat of arms on title pages

Includes indexes at end on both volumes

Errata statements in both volumes

Vol. 1: [12], 402, [6], 403-420, [2] p.; v. 2: [4], 379, [5] p

Page 215 misnumbered 315, v. 2

Signatures: v. 1: * 2*² A-3G 3H² (*1, 2*2, P2 versos blank; 3E4 and 3H2 blank). V. 2: *² A-3B (*1, *2, 2Y3, 3B2, 3B4 versos blank)

Camargo & Moraes. Bib. da Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro

Valle Cabral. Annaes da Imprensa Nacional do Rio de Janeiro

Rodrigues, J.C. Bib. brasiliense

Sabin

Silva, Innocencio da. Diccionario bib. portuguez

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf

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